Re: How useful is the money datatype? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Raymond O'Donnell
Subject Re: How useful is the money datatype?
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In response to Re: How useful is the money datatype?  (Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>)
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On 03/10/2009 11:53, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
> depending on the countries, etc - keep currencies in 10.4 , or you can
> compromise to 10.3 , otherwise you might run into problems with
> rounding, etc.

I thought the idea of NUMERIC was that the value was exact, avoiding
rounding problems that you might get with other floating-point types?

Ray.

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